This is an archive of resources related to connected learning that was developed as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative and the Connected Learning Alliance between 2012 and 2025. For more recent resources, visit our home page, the Connected Learning Summit, or the Connected Learning Lab.
New toolkit, and associated report, shares effective practices for equitable, youth-centered digital learning. Rather than one silver bullet, this toolkit offers a range of approaches in five strategic areas where...
On 22 June 2016, the Department of Media and Communications hosted an event to launch a new book series, Connected Youth and Digital Futures with New York University Press. The...
I first heard about Jie Qi, a recent Ph.d. from the MIT Media Lab, when she launched “circuit stickers” while she was still a graduate student. Conductive stickers and ultra-thin...
High school English teacher Scott Glass of Glenbrook South in the suburbs of Chicago had always been interested in art and creating, but didn’t do a lot of it himself...
If you want to learn about the best ways to apply digital media to learning, catch a glimpse of where educational institutions are going, and hear it all from someone...
I’m a big fan of DS106, the radically open and learner-centric course that emanates from the University of Mary Washington. Jim Groom and Alan Levine get a lot of credit...
Digital Media and Learning Conference 2016 | October 5-7, 2016 | University of California, Irvine Accepting applications: Monday, February 22, 2016 – Monday, April 4, 2016 Notifications of Acceptance: May...
Sofya Zeylikman is both a connected student and a connected educator, a senior studying furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design while leading workshops with kids “teaching them about...
“It’s the traditional Bollywood romance: extravagant costumes, dancing and singing. Except for the lovers’ genders. This year, Northwestern’s Hindi Film Dance team Anubhav is telling the tale of a man’s...
Applaud and/or Comment for Connected Learning Submissions for the Knight News Challenge! The Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. The...
Digital Media and Learning Conference 2015 Equity By Design Los Angeles, California June 11-13, 2015Call for proposals accepting applications: Monday, September 29, 2014 – Monday, December 1, 2014 Conference Chair:...
Ian Gonsher, part of the faculty in the School of Engineering at Brown University, consistently seeks opportunities to enhance his students’ creative processes while becoming a ‘co-learner’ alongside them. The...
Rikke Toft Nørgård, Assistant Professor at the Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media at Aarhus University in Denmark, practices something she calls “gelatinous pedagogy” in which she tries not...
Actress and Voto Latino founder Rosario Dawson promotes the VL Innovators Challenge (and coaches Jimmy Fallon on the best way to say Latina). Click the image below or this link...
